A Christmas Carol to remember
While not strictly music per se, there may be (to my estimation anyway) no finer variation on "A Christmas Carol" than that of one Edmund Black Adder. If anyone reading this does not already own this spectacular DVD box set, I urge you to rush out madly, shoving aside toddlers, seniors, and the disabled alike, to purchase it - NOW!
Voted one of Britain's all-time funniest series (and even the most jaded anglophile here in the states would be hard-pressed to disagree) - you would do yourself a dire disservice by choosing to ignore this. I find each and every one of the series episodes to be jewels of comedic brilliance - unparalleled in television "comedy" of that era, or since. Sure, folks will argue and disagree but, to me, it simply doesn't get any better than this.
Within this series there are far too many instances of classic repartee to even consider a "favorite", but I am fond of this one particular line in the Christmas special (a smile curls across my lips just reading it over again now):
Ebenezer Blackadder: Baldrick, I want you to go out and buy a turkey so large you'd think it's mother had been rogered by an omnibus.
And this one as well from the first TV series (oh heck, I'll admit it, this is indeed one of my all time favs):
Mother Superior: Let us just go over the facts again. Having been appointed archbishop, you found that all your interest lay in the beauty of your vestments.
Edmund: Alas, the fine embroidery.
Mother Superior: And unable to resist the slide into depravity, you began to dress up in the habit of a nun.
Edmund: I couldn’t resist the texture of the hessian under things.
